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Blast From the Past: A Modern Lake in an Ancient Crater

Famously visible from space, ring-shaped Manicouagan Lake was filled at the dawn of the Space Age when Canada dammed a river to flood a Triassic-aged impact crater.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Blast From the Past: A Modern Lake in an Ancient Crater.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Sara E. Pratt.

Published July 1, 2025
Data acquired January 20, 2022

Source:: Terra > MODIS